364 INDEX 
rice-fields, 51 
Rift Valley, 124, 129 
Ritchie, Captain, 124, 299 
riverside vegetation, 209 
road, 325 
Roatelo (Mesoenas variegata), 258 
Robin, Cape, 18 
Robin-chat— 
Blue-shouldered (Cossypha cyanocamp- 
ter), 165 
Heuglin’s (Cossypha heuglini), 28, 136 
Natal (Cossypha natalensis), 28 
Red-capped (Cossypha natalensis), 136 
Snowy-headed (Cossypha niveicapilla), 
332 
White-shouldered, 97 
White-throated (Bessonornis humeralis), 
18 
robin-chats, 38, 213 
Robins— 
Forest (Stiphrornis erythrothorax), 332 
White-starred Bush (Pogonocichla stel- 
lata), 141 
Rockthrush, Short-toed, 188 
Rollers— 
Cinnamon (Eurystomus afer), 38 
Long-tailed (Coracias caudatus), 126 
Pitta-like Ground (Aftelornis pittoides), 
257 
Scaly Ground (Geobiastes squamigera), 
257 
Rondebosch, 11 
Rooibosch tea, 32 
Rothschild, Lord, 150 
Royal Engineers, 282 
Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, 349 
Rushbrooke, Lieutenant-Commander, 100 
Rustenburg, 9, 12, 17 
Sahara, 304 
Saigon, 50; Botanical Gardens, 50; River, 
50 
Sakalava, 270, 272; country, 247; natives, 
246, 269 
Saloya, River, 230, 231 
sandpipers, 42, 125 
Santo Domingo de los Colorados, 217, 218, 
219, 220 
Saranda, 237 
Sauvage, Gilbert, 295, 296 
savanna country, 202-203, 205 
scenery, 51, 218, 226; coastal, 289 
scent glands, 109-110 
Scheldt, 348 
school-boy trappers, 158, 159 
sciatica, 317 
scorpion’s sting, 211 
Scotland, 131 
Scott, Cleland, 293-294, 309 
seasonal plumage changes, 303-304 
second growth, 165 
Seed-cracker— 
Black-bellied, 167 
Blue-billed (Sphermophaga haematina), 
332-333 
Seed-finches, Thick-billed 
crassirostris), 327 
seeds, 125-126 
Sekondi, 192 
selling bird shipment, 16-17 
Sena Sugar Estates, 42 
Senegalese troops, 279 
serval, black, 293, 295 
servals (Felis serval), 30, 129, 298 
servant code, 186 
servants, 192-193 
Seychelles, 98; Governor of the, 314; Is- 
lands, 312, 314 
Shangaan, 8; women, 9 
Sharpe, Major, 294-295, 296 
Sheep, Karakul, 302 
Shelduck, Australian (Tadorno tadornoti- 
des), 151 
shipping collection, 48-49, 310-316, 328- 
329 
shrew— 
British, 154 
(Suncus), 290 
tree, 57-58 
Shrike— 
Greater Puff-back (Dryoscopus cubla), 
18 
Long-tailed (Urolestes melanoleucus), 18 
Southern Helmet (Prionops _ polioce- 
phala), 97 
shrimps, 80 
Siafu, 138-139 
sifaka, 274, 349 
Sifaka, Verreaux’s (Propithecus verreauxi), 
252 
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